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I'm working from home and have Swedish provider Bahnhof. Since I pull a lot of backups and use 4k TV in often at 100TB (Terrabyte). Not a single complaint and 4

I'm working from home and have Swedish provider Bahnhof. Since I pull a lot of backups and use 4k TV in often at 100TB (Terrabyte). Not a single complaint and 40$/mo

PerryCox 7y ago
This is the type of world I want to live in, and it is entirely possible and doable here in the US. We just need to get our politicians on board, which is easier said than done.
- Havoc 7y ago
  Not only possible but fast too. I was amazed how fast South Africa went from 4mbps adsl to fibre with gigabit available. Not throughout of course but still...was surprised how fast things move if there is a sense of competition.
newaccoutnas 7y ago
A couple of petabytes in a month? A 1Gbit connection does about 75 Terabytes a week so unless you have a truly exceptional connection, that seems excessive
- tmikaeld 7y ago
  Sorry, updated. 1Gbit connection, about 100TB/mo.
zaroth 7y ago
You download 800MB/second, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for $40 per month? Color me incredulous. Obviously you meant terabytes! 2TB/month I think is a lot to expect from a $40/month connection. The economics of that, in reality, is that your lower usage neighbors are heavily subsidizing your bandwidth costs.
- esotericn 7y ago
  This (terabytes, not petabytes) is a very standard connection here in Europe. You can drive across remote parts of Norway, Sweden etc and have 20mbit+ 4G (probably more if you had a high gain antenna). Externally it sounds more like the US just has shit infrastructure, sorry.
  - vinay427 7y ago
    There's far too much variance to have a European standard. I vaguely recall seeing bandwidth-capped plans in the country I'm living in now last time I was shopping for internet plans, but I'll have to check again. That 20 Mbit/s driving across remote areas probably wouldn't even hold true for Switzerland. But yes, overall I'd say the US definitely has worse home internet infrastructure (though it's unfortunately still not as bad as some other developed countries).
    - mitola 7y ago
      From my experience in Switzerland a lot of times holds true for me(in city however I can achieve a lot more then Mbit/s) But for sure it depends on location, but for now in the remote areas I have been there it worked like a charm. But recently in a relatively big city in US, i was at measly 5 Mbit/s. However I am sure there are as always areas with low or maybe even nonexistent coverage in any case in any country. But the percentage of that can cover widely practically speaking.
  - sgt 7y ago
    You can also drive across other remote parts of Norway and find yourself limited to EDGE. I am not sure why you're making it sound like Norway has functional 4G/LTE all over, which is not the case.
  - ryanmercer 7y ago
    >Externally it sounds more like the US just has shit infrastructure, sorry. Sometimes I think Europeans have no real idea of how large the United States is. We have single states larger than several countries and single states with larger populations than several countries. - Norway is 148,728 square miles with 5.258 million people. - Sweden is 173,860 square miles with 9.995 million people. - The United States land area is 3,531,905 square miles with 327.2 million people. Of course we have a lower quality of infrastructure, 2 of our 50 states are individually larger than Sweden. California is larger than Norway with nearly 8 times the population
tomxor 7y ago
How do you go about getting them? I can't find a site that sells UK internet under the name bahnhof. There is a swedish site that doesn't accept UK addresses and an english site that is selling data center orientated stuff.
- Svenskunganka 7y ago
  Only Swedish households can use them as far as I'm aware.
  - tomxor 7y ago
    ah sorry ignore, i'm mixing up two posts from the OP where he mentions his UK ISP which i must presume is different.
uberswe 7y ago
I used to live in Texas, my experience with Comcast was a daily nightmare compared to Sweden where I had 100/100 for around $30 a few years ago. My provider in Sweden recently started advertising 10000/10000 for around $50 per month, no cap :) I currently live in Germany where the internet is a bit worse but still much better compared to the US. I get 500/100 here with no cap for $40 per month.

I'm working from home and have Swedish provider Bahnhof. Since I pull a lot of backups and use 4k TV in often at 100TB (Terrabyte). Not a single complaint and 40$/mo

PerryCox 7y ago

This is the type of world I want to live in, and it is entirely possible and doable here in the US. We just need to get our politicians on board, which is easier said than done.

Havoc 7y ago
Not only possible but fast too. I was amazed how fast South Africa went from 4mbps adsl to fibre with gigabit available. Not throughout of course but still...was surprised how fast things move if there is a sense of competition.

newaccoutnas 7y ago

A couple of petabytes in a month? A 1Gbit connection does about 75 Terabytes a week so unless you have a truly exceptional connection, that seems excessive

tmikaeld 7y ago
Sorry, updated. 1Gbit connection, about 100TB/mo.

zaroth 7y ago

You download 800MB/second, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for $40 per month? Color me incredulous. Obviously you meant terabytes! 2TB/month I think is a lot to expect from a $40/month connection. The economics of that, in reality, is that your lower usage neighbors are heavily subsidizing your bandwidth costs.

esotericn 7y ago
This (terabytes, not petabytes) is a very standard connection here in Europe. You can drive across remote parts of Norway, Sweden etc and have 20mbit+ 4G (probably more if you had a high gain antenna). Externally it sounds more like the US just has shit infrastructure, sorry.
- vinay427 7y ago
  There's far too much variance to have a European standard. I vaguely recall seeing bandwidth-capped plans in the country I'm living in now last time I was shopping for internet plans, but I'll have to check again. That 20 Mbit/s driving across remote areas probably wouldn't even hold true for Switzerland. But yes, overall I'd say the US definitely has worse home internet infrastructure (though it's unfortunately still not as bad as some other developed countries).
  - mitola 7y ago
    From my experience in Switzerland a lot of times holds true for me(in city however I can achieve a lot more then Mbit/s) But for sure it depends on location, but for now in the remote areas I have been there it worked like a charm. But recently in a relatively big city in US, i was at measly 5 Mbit/s. However I am sure there are as always areas with low or maybe even nonexistent coverage in any case in any country. But the percentage of that can cover widely practically speaking.
- sgt 7y ago
  You can also drive across other remote parts of Norway and find yourself limited to EDGE. I am not sure why you're making it sound like Norway has functional 4G/LTE all over, which is not the case.
- ryanmercer 7y ago
  >Externally it sounds more like the US just has shit infrastructure, sorry. Sometimes I think Europeans have no real idea of how large the United States is. We have single states larger than several countries and single states with larger populations than several countries. - Norway is 148,728 square miles with 5.258 million people. - Sweden is 173,860 square miles with 9.995 million people. - The United States land area is 3,531,905 square miles with 327.2 million people. Of course we have a lower quality of infrastructure, 2 of our 50 states are individually larger than Sweden. California is larger than Norway with nearly 8 times the population

tomxor 7y ago

How do you go about getting them? I can't find a site that sells UK internet under the name bahnhof. There is a swedish site that doesn't accept UK addresses and an english site that is selling data center orientated stuff.

Svenskunganka 7y ago
Only Swedish households can use them as far as I'm aware.
- tomxor 7y ago
  ah sorry ignore, i'm mixing up two posts from the OP where he mentions his UK ISP which i must presume is different.

uberswe 7y ago

I used to live in Texas, my experience with Comcast was a daily nightmare compared to Sweden where I had 100/100 for around $30 a few years ago. My provider in Sweden recently started advertising 10000/10000 for around $50 per month, no cap :) I currently live in Germany where the internet is a bit worse but still much better compared to the US. I get 500/100 here with no cap for $40 per month.